A good idea would be to look on ebay and ask for close-up pics of his face, so your Spike won't have a horrible paint-job.

Also, don't take the magazine too seriously. Mistakes are made, for example, a fellow fan who has the magazine told me "They said that the poster at the back was a picture of the scoobies in season four. Yet it was clearly season five seing as Dawn was in it.".

Sunday, August 23, 2009

This weeks featured episode is from season 3 of Angel, named Couplet(Groo has returned and Angel feels threatened, Gunn and Fred gets kidnapped by a tree monster, etc etc).

After Wesley compares Angel's uniqueness to the rare volumes in the bookseller's shop(read dialoguehere), not only does Lionel announce that he has three copies of the book Wesley requested, but he goes even further to unintentionally cut down Angel by admitting:

"Cover's coming off this one. I'll give you twenty percent off and a free bookmark."

My source for Angel excerpts is as always, The Casefiles vol 1-2 by Paul Ruditis and Diana G. Gallagher

The speech Angelus gives in Passion(Buffy, season 2) is completely different from the one that was in the original script. The cheerful original version was as follows:

"Passion, it is born, and though uninvited, unwelcome, unwanted like a cancer, it takes root. It festers. It bleeds. It scabs only to rupture, and bleed anew. It grows, it thrives until it consumes. It lives so, it must die in time. Passion, it drives some to distraction, some to despair, some to vengeance. It drives some to murder and others to madness. Passion is the source of hope and the cause of despair. It is the source of life and the cause of death."

Here's the aired version:

"Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... ...waiting... And though unwanted... ...unbidden... it will stir...open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have?Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief.It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank... Without passion, we'd be truly dead."

I don't know about you, but I think the original version represents Angelus more. His hatred for emotions/passion can be cleary seen in the original, while in the aired version, he's just a story teller.

I understand that the voice over for the episode could have been read by any character, since it's more a lesson about passion, not a character's point of view of passion. Don't get me wrong, I don't think Angelus disagree with everything in the speech, but since it was read by Angelus, I wanted it to be more like the original version. Because I don't think he would have called "the joy of love" one of his/ours "finest moments".

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